Katie Melua Instagram – Want to know what an apologetic, hungover phone call from TS Eliot sounds like? Or what Thomas Hardy was like in old age? Then Virginia Woolf’s diaries are a gold mine!!
Currently, Volume 3 is my perfect bedtime reading companion. Once Sandro is in bed, we are beyond lucky he goes to sleep with relative ease (sleep gods please continue to be kind to us) then, while O reads about death on Everest, I bug him with quotes from her diaries, like this one:
“I shall be off again, feeling that extraordinary exhilaration, that ardour & lust of creation – which is odd, if what I create is, as it well may be, wholly bad.”
– from February 1927, having just completed one of my favourite books of all time, To The Lighthouse. | Posted on 29/May/2024 19:30:00
